He is the head of the World Health Organization, but his family is starving. Desperate Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he cannot send money to his parents in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region.
"I have many relatives there. I want to send you money to them, but I can't. I don't know who of them is alive or dead."
Since the war began in 2020, this region has been cut off from the rest of the world, with no phone or internet coverage.
Ethiopia's government has been accused of imposing an aid blockade in the region, preventing essential shipments, which it has blamed on the fighting. Tens of thousands of civilians have died and millions are in urgent need of food aid.
The World Food Program says almost half of Tigray's 5.5 million people are in "high" need for food.
It is not the first time that the head of the WHO talks about the war. In 2020 he denied accusations by an Ethiopian general that Ghebreyesus had helped buy weapons for Tigray rebels.
In the last conference, the Head of the WHO said that the humanitarian crisis in this region of Ethiopia is the worst in the world, even bigger than that of Ukraine. He accused the whole world of racism, pointing out that this crisis is not only receiving attention because of the color of the skin.